Wood anemone and relatives

It seems some of these will survive a wide range of climatic conditions, given that they can even be grown here.

Anemone obtusiloba is exquisite, especially the blue!  I read the glowing write-up in the Wrightman's catalogue, but with so many seedlings, I didn't make an order - now I regret it, seeing yours!

Here is Anemone trifoliata - very pristine white flowers:

Some Anemone's flowering here during the last week:

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'
Anemone oppositifolia 'Yellow'

I just collected a wild A nemorosa with lilla/purple colors in the white. Very nice indeed.
Maybe a new cultivar?
Martin

Martin wrote:

I just collected a wild A nemorosa with lilla/purple colors in the white. Very nice indeed.
Maybe a new cultivar?
Martin

Martin,

do you have a picture of the flower? i'm curious.

I saw on your site you grow Drosera brevifolia. Is that species hardy for you?

I get some pix updated. But they are not good and the flowers are fading. Not the best time to transplant them.

No, brevifolia is an annual here as it is many places in nature.

Martin

Love all of these--especially the blue (lilac) and creamy yellow colours..
I sowed some nemorosa in '09 ( I think)..wonder if its time to give up hope of seeing anything?..lol of course nothing is doing anything for this year yet..

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal', now in bloom:
   

A new little one planted last year, A. nemorosa 'Blue Eyes':

Our wood anemones are well over, especially with this dry spring, but they were superb in the local woods earlier on - very little variation, just occasionally one a little pinker on opening. However, I was given a very deep pink form, turning purple as it aged, by a customer years ago (we called it 'Westwell Pink' after the woods where it was found). It is strong growing but I think little different to quite a few other forms, just nice for its association with the area.

I grow a good number in the garden including that extraordinary 'Double White Blue Eyes' which I think Irish gardeners first grew. 'Robinsoniana' and 'Allenii' have long been favourites, as well as the beautiful cross between nemorosa and ranunculoides. There is not much I can find written about them but there is a good article in 'The Plantsman', Vol.3 (1981/2), pp.167-174, by Ulrich Toubøl where he speaks of quite significant variation in beech woods in Denmark and describes most of the well known varieties. I have visions of them carpeting under our rows of apple trees after the snowdrops and hellebores have finished and I also plant them around hostas which are so much later to come into growth and take over for the summer.

Nice one, Rick, good to see these- I wasn't clear on how different rivularis would look from my local cylindrica, but I see its quite different... much showier flowers.. I've decided the greatest advantages of cylindrica are non-floral- nice leaves including fall colour sometimes, and wooly cylindrical seedheads persisting through winter..

It will be a little while until the wood anemones appear again but to whet the appetite these are pictures of stands of A. nemorosa in Blean Woods near to Canterbury last spring. En masse like this they are very lovely, but there is hardly any variation, just a few going pink as they age.

Well done, Rick!  You certainly have a lot more patience with seed-starting than I do.

What a beautiful sight, Tim!

Here is a bad photo, unfortunately, but after pondering it many times, I finally realized it's Anemone richardsonii, a yellow-flowered species that I had not seen before.  This little colony is growing in wet conditions along a stream in a subalpine meadow in Banff N. P..

Beautiful, Tim- always love these sorts of deciduous forest spring displays, which we simply do not have-for one thing, we have almost no spring flowering forbs in our forested areas (apart from some tiny violets) our closest to this sort of display being Caltha palustris which can rather carpet  really wet woods- where it has a bit less competition from grasses/sedges than it does where it grows in the open- but you still never get this sort of extent of one species as in your photos...

Beautiful place, Trond!
Its funny looking at these to think that our local A canadensis (not a spring flower) is considered aggressive, but (at least among its native vegetation) it never gets to an extent like this, nor have I ever encountered such exclusive stands of it (nor any other plant here, for that matter)..